Fall or Spring Semester?

Hello everyone

Thats my second post to Gmatclub, though i have been a loyal reader of the forum since 3-4 months. Well, my question is whether starting an MBA program in fall or spring semester. I need to make a quick decision and reschedule my GMAT till this friday, and unfortunately i feel so stressed up that my brain decided to stop working nowadays.

Little info about me: I am currently an undergraduate and will graduate in summer 2009. I moved to Germany last August to do an internship, and during that internship the recession among the world got worse and worse (i guess everybody knows that). Then i thought maybe it would be much better for me to stay out of business life (or we can call it escaping from reality and staying a student for 2 more years), and i scheduled toefl and gmat exams for January 2009 in order to apply for MBAs in U.S. But since i am an int'l applicant, i already missed lot of application deadlines. My latest solution is to reschedule the exam for April or May and apply for spring semesters (the ones starting in Jan. or Feb. 2010).

But i am really concerned about the graduation and financing issues of this decision. You see, as many of the newly graduates, i don't have enough money to write a single cheque for an MBA and finance it by myself, so i need to apply for the teaching/research assistanceships of those programs (financial aids are the last hope). What do you think about the possibility of getting into these positions if i will enter a programme in the middle of a year?

Even though i believe to have a competitive background, my GPA is my weakness so i am not aiming for elite or most of the near-elites, coz i know if i ever get into those, my chance will be smaller to get an assistanceship. So, to summarize things up, i am an almost graduate, who wants to get into an MBA or MS programme with a 100% funding, pretty late for 2009 fall applications and doesn't know what to do. Every opinions and suggestions are appericated.